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By John K. Waters
OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf—formerly known as Codeium—is the company's largest acquisition to date and places the maker of ChatGPT squarely in the heart of the code editor. For developers, this isn’t just news. It’s a direct shift in the tools and platforms that shape their daily workflow.
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By John K. Waters
OpenAI has made its gpt-image-1 image generation model available through its public API, giving software developers direct access to the same system that powers image creation in ChatGPT. The release allows developers to embed high-quality image generation into their applications, workflows, and tools using a simple API call.
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Our columnist throws a spotlight on the Outsystems Platform because, as he sees it, the introduction of its Mentor AI application generator late last year demonstrates the inevitable intersection of LCAP and Generative AI.
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By John K. Waters
Google Cloud unveils AI-first developer tools, multi-agent systems, and hyperscale infrastructure to accelerate enterprise app development.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation has unveiled two major advancements in open-source artificial intelligence development tools: Theia AI and an AI-powered Theia IDE, both aimed at giving developers full control over how AI is integrated into their development environments.
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By John K. Waters
For software developers, nova.amazon.com is more than a model zoo, the company says, it’s the start of a new way to build.
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Microsoft on Tuesday introduced two new artificial intelligence agents, Researcher and Analyst, for its Microsoft 365 Copilot platform, expanding its use of generative AI to support complex workplace tasks. The agents will begin rolling out to select users in April, the company says.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft has supercharged its Security Copilot platform with 11 new autonomous AI agents designed to help developers and security teams triage phishing alerts, remediate vulnerabilities, and secure AI workloads across multi-cloud environments—marking a major step in automated cyber defense tools tailored for modern DevSecOps workflows.
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By John K. Waters
JavaOne is back in the Bay Area as a stand-alone event, with the release of Java 24 in the spotlight. This release isn't an LTS, but it's a statement of intent—a move toward an AI-ready future, stronger security against quantum threats, and a development experience built for the modern world.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft has unveiled a complete native port of TypeScript, promising 10x faster build times, dramatically reduced memory usage, and near-instant error checking.
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Microsoft has launched a public preview of its AI-powered coding assistant, GitHub Copilot for Eclipse, further expanding its AI ecosystem into the widely used open-source Eclipse IDE. The move marks another step in Microsoft's push to integrate AI-assisted development across multiple platforms, including those traditionally outside its ecosystem.
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By John K. Waters
The "2025 Java Developer Productivity Report " reveals a landscape undergoing significant shifts, particularly in hiring trends, tooling budgets, and the adoption of new Java versions.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum computing chip, Majorana 1, designed to accelerate quantum computing development and deployment in datacenters. This milestone marks a step toward making quantum computing more reliable and accessible for software developers working on next-generation applications.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft's recent decision to cancel several U.S.-based AI datacenter leases has sparked concerns among analysts about the long-term trajectory of generative AI.
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By John K. Waters
JetBrains unveils a significant expansion to its AI-powered coding tool, AI Assistant, with support for the latest AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Microsoft rolls out the latest update to its flagship integrated development environment, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, introducing new AI-powered features, including GitHub Copilot Free.
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Google has officially launched Gemini 2.0, a significant update to its flagship AI model, aimed at enterprise users and developers seeking enhanced multimodal capabilities and improved performance.
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By John K. Waters
Cloud services provider DigitalOcean announced the launch of its new GenAI Platform at its biannual developer conference, Deploy, in Austin, Texas. The platform is designed to help businesses of all sizes create and deploy generative AI agents with minimal technical expertise.
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By John K. Waters
As the tech world charges into 2025, O'Reilly Media's latest report on its learning platform usage offers a deep dive into the shifting sands of software development education.
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Our columnist offer advice on how citizen developers can make the most of AI advancements and developer their prompt engineering skills.
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By John K. Waters
GitHub announces the launch of GitHub Copilot Free, offering a no-cost version of its AI-powered coding assistant to developers worldwide.
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Our columnist offers his take on a new layer of abstraction, which he and others are calling "Citizen AI."
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By John K. Waters
The Java language and platform continues to be the backbone of many enterprise applications, and yet businesses are only scratching the surface of its cost-saving potential. That's the conclusion of a survey by BellSoft conducted during the annual Devoxx Belgium conference of more than 300 attendees.
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By John K. Waters
Software development tools maker JetBrains has unveiled Mellum, a specialized large language model designed specifically to assist software developers, and in the company's words, "revolutionize code completion in software development."
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Microsoft plans to let more of its users spin up autonomous AI agents within Copilot Studio, its AI orchestration platform.